Romanesque Revival
Place of Worship

1887  Battell Chapel
Designed by Josiah Cleveland Cady

In 1887 Urania Battell Humphrey engaged New York architect Josiah Cleveland Cady to design a chapel for the Church of Christ in memory of her parents, Joseph and Sarah Robbins Battell. Urania was the widow of James Humphrey, a United States Congressman from Brooklyn. A masterpiece of ecclesiastical design in the Romanesque Revival style, Battell Chapel incorporates traditional architectural elements with modern functions: the semi-circular apse projecting toward the Green was used as a parlor, and the bell tower served as the principal entry into the sanctuary. Sheathed in native granite, the Chapel is a harmonious grouping of attractive forms, which provided a place for worship as well as parish gatherings. The addition to the south was constructed in 1966 for Sunday School and meeting rooms.

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